The Restoration Garden: A Novel

Julia Esdaile, a landscape architect, is hired to restore the historic gardens at Havenworth Manor, which have fallen into disrepair. The ninety-two-year-old lady of the manor, Margaret Clarke, has commissioned the restoration to fulfill a deeply personal promise made decades earlier. In 1940, Margaret's older half sister Irene was an aspiring artist who dreamed of escaping Havenworth. She bonded with James Atherton, a RAF officer, over their shared opposition to war. When Irene follows James to London, she becomes deeply in love but faces an impossible choice—one that causes her to disappear from Margaret's life permanently. With assistance from Margaret's godson Andrew, Julia works to uncover the long-buried secrets of the past and solve the heartbreaking mystery connected to Havenworth's gardens.